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OverviewSalsa and merengue are now so popular that they are household words for Americans of all ethnic backgrounds. Recent media attention is helping other Caribbean music styles like bachata to attain a similar status. Yet popular Mexican American dances remain unknown and invisible to most non-Latinos. Quebradita, meaning little break,? is a modern Mexican American dance style that became hugely popular in Los Angeles and across the southwestern United States during the early to mid 1990s. Over the decade of its popularity, this dance craze offered insights into the social and cultural experience of Mexican American youth. Accompanied by banda, an energetic brass band music style, quebradita is recognizable by its western clothing, hat tricks, and daring flips. The dance's combination of Mexican, Anglo, and African American influences represented a new sensibility that appealed to thousands of young people. Hutchinson argues that, though short-lived, the dance filled political and sociocultural functions, emerging as it did in response to the anti-immigrant and English-only legislation that was then being enacted in California. Her fieldwork and interviews yield rich personal testimony as to the inner workings of the quebradita's aesthetic development and social significance. The emergence of pasito duranguense, a related yet distinct style originating in Chicago, marks the evolution of the Mexican American youth dance scene. Like the quebradita before it, pasito duranguense has picked up the task of demonstrating the relevance of regional Mexican music and dance within the U.S. context. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sydney HutchinsonPublisher: University of Arizona Press Imprint: University of Arizona Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.348kg ISBN: 9780816526321ISBN 10: 081652632 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 30 May 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsThe quebradita story is rich in issues of cultural differences across Mexican American and Mexican cultural subgroups based on nationality, region, generation, and gender. The closer look at cultural and social processes that Hutchinson offers draws us into the deeper vectors that come to bear on the creation and practice of the dance and the broader and subtle meanings that the dance expresses. -- Daniel E. Sheehy The quebradita story is rich in issues of cultural differences across Mexican American and Mexican cultural subgroups based on nationality, region, generation, and gender. The closer look at cultural and social processes that Hutchinson offers draws us into the deeper vectors that come to bear on the creation and practice of the dance and the broader and subtle meanings that the dance expresses. --Daniel E. Sheehy, Smithsonian Institution The quebradita story is rich in issuesof cultural differences across MexicanAmerican and Mexican culturalsubgroups based on nationality, region, generation, and gender. The closerlook at cultural and social processesthat Hutchinson offers draws us into thedeeper vectors that come to bear onthe creation and practice of the danceand the broader and subtle meaningsthat the dance expresses. --Daniel E. Sheehy, SmithsonianInstitution Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |